Chapter 361: Tuvalu

After handing over some of the construction plans of Yunmeng New City to the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration to deal with, Wei Minsheng contacted Long Hao.

After many twists and turns, with the help of an interpreter, Long Hao has arrived in the Tuvalu Islands.

Tuvalu is located in the South Pacific Ocean, bordering Fiji in the south, Kiribati in the north, and the Solomon Islands in the west, consisting of 9 ring coral island groups, 560 kilometers apart from the north and south, stretching from northwest to southeast in a sea area of about 1.3 million square kilometers, of which 8 coral islands are inhabited.

With a land area of only 26 square kilometres and no rivers, it is the second smallest island nation in the world after Nauru.

The highest point of Tuvalu is no more than 5 meters above sea level, the temperature difference is small, the average annual temperature is 29 degrees Celsius, it belongs to the tropical marine climate, and the average annual precipitation is 3,000 mm.

Intense tropical storms are uncommon here, but there were three hurricanes in '97, and the islands' low altitude makes them very sensitive to changes in the ocean.

Tuvalu is very resource-scarce, with poor land, backward agriculture and almost no industry.

The family is the most basic unit of production and life, participates in collective labor, and is mainly engaged in fishing and planting coconuts, bananas, and taro, and the goods obtained are divided equally within the family.

Buying and selling is mainly bartering, and foreign exchange earnings are mainly based on foreign aid, the export of postage stamps and copra copra, the collection of foreign fishing fees in the Tutu waters and remittances from expatriates working in Nauru's phosphate mines.

Tuvalu's per capita GDP is just over $1,000, while inflation is 5 per cent.

Due to its remote location, small land and lack of a good deep-water port, the sea and air transportation is extremely inconvenient, and Tuvalu Airport can only accommodate small aircraft with 50 seats.

Tuvalu's entire territory is made up of coral reefs, and global warming has slowed down the growth rate of corals and even killed them in large numbers, and Tuvalu, which is held up by coral reefs, will also "sink" as a result.

In the 16 years from 1993 to 2008, Tuvalu's sea level rose by a total of 9.12 centimetres, and it is estimated that in 40 years, the sea level will rise by 37.6 centimetres, meaning that at least 60 per cent of Tuvalu's land will sink completely.

Tuvalu has no industry, agriculture is extremely underdeveloped, there are only a few scattered service industries, foreign exchange reserves are almost zero, and the locals live mainly on remittances from relatives who work or settle abroad.

Tuvalu is import-dependent on all supplies, from a typical towel in a supermarket to $17 and a bottle of mineral water for $2.

With no rivers and an extreme lack of fresh water, perishable vegetables have become a highly prized local food.

For a long time, meat has been used as a staple food without green vegetables, so the local people generally suffer from fatty liver, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, heart disease and other diseases at the age of thirty or forty. The average life expectancy is less than 50 years.

At least 6,000 people have left Tuvalu to emigrate, leaving only about 7,000 people still living in Tuvalu, most of whom are elderly, sick and disabled who are unable to migrate.

Tuvalu's Minister of Environment has said that no country is currently willing to accept Tuvaluan migrants because no country is willing to accept these Tuvaluans who do not have much capacity to work.

For developed countries, these "environmental refugees" only impose a burden on their countries.

After Wei Minsheng learned this information, he felt that there was a lot to be done.

The altitude of the island is too low, which is not a problem, because you have a world of land to use.

Moreover, the seabed around Tuvalu is not deep, and it is not difficult to fill out a piece of land in the vicinity, but how to take over the legitimate power of the country from the people of Tuvalu in a reasonable way.

Since most of these people are old, weak, sick and disabled, and have no ability to emigrate, Wei Minsheng has at least four ways to transform it to his advantage.

According to the five elements of Shengke's analysis and treatment of the problem, one is Sheng, the other is Ke, and Shengke has two options, so at least four ways can be found to solve it.

Life is the best outcome for these "environmental refugees".

Due to the lack of fresh water here, vegetables cannot grow, so Wei Minsheng can use fresh water and vegetables as weapons to help these Tuvaluans.

Of course, this assistance is not gratuitous, and they need their support to freely organize the movement of people to migrate to Tuvalu, and these migrants must have the same rights as the original Tuvaluans.

If these people of Tuvalu are regarded as the "soil" of the five elements, then Wei Minsheng's supportive behavior belongs to "fire", and the greater Wei Minsheng's supportive power, the better the people of Tuvalu will live.

When this behavior becomes a kind of dependence, Wei Minsheng can have a greater freedom of movement here.

The second is to use funds to help these people emigrate, because the more these people go, the weaker the Tuvaluan regime's control over the archipelago will be, and Wei Minsheng can look for opportunities to take advantage of it.

These two methods can also be combined, but no matter how they are used, they are good things for the people of Tuvalu, so they are both "living" roads.

If Wei Minsheng was ruthless and used that large shared space or the resources of another world, he could completely destroy this archipelago with a maximum altitude of less than 5 meters in one night, and then replace it.

Of course, there is also a way to accelerate the deterioration of the surrounding environment and force them to leave the place with an even harsher marine environment.

Although Wei Minsheng has many choices, from his heart, it is better not to use the "gram" method to solve this problem.

Tuvalu has a visa on arrival (port visa) for tourists and business people, as long as you have a passport valid for more than six months and a return ticket, you can apply for a visa on arrival at Tuvalu's Funafuti Airport.

The visa on arrival is valid for a one-month stay at no cost, but there is a $50 processing fee for extensions.

Such a simple and convenient visa method is in Wei Minsheng's mind, and one month is enough for him to accomplish a lot of things through Long Hao.

Therefore, Wei Minsheng first asked Long Hao to rent an empty house on the smallest island of Nyurakita Island in the name of tourism and live there temporarily.

Wei Minsheng gave him a simple task, which was to collect some materials for learning Tuvaluan characters, because there would definitely be more communication with the residents here in the future, and if you didn't understand their language at all, many things would be inconvenient.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still an eighteen times time difference between the two worlds, Long Hao can go to another world to learn some daily words and words under the cover of renting a house.

If you don't know what you don't know, you can go to a translator or someone with local knowledge to explain it to you, record it with a video camera, and then return to the other world and show it to Wei Minsheng and a few people under him who have shared space.